Daniel Libeskind Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.
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I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
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When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware of the violence there and how we pollute the Earth more than the New Zealanders.
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As your dependence on God grows, so will your church.
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Those are hard films to make, medieval films. Nobody will put a lot of cash into it, but it needs a lot of money because of sets and costumes and stuff. I really, really wanted to make that film just because I knew it would be a big challenge, and I also knew that I wanted to create a world that was my world and it wasn't a world based on what we all know.
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I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
